You spoke too soon. It will come with Gradius pre-installed. Not my piece of pi personally but I'm happy to discus it when there's less on my plate. I'm busy playing Port Hole 2, may take me quite some time I sphere. Some people loved it but I think it's balls.

I know I'm treading dangerous grounds here, but a Win8 console would make sense. If it's to be "more" than a gaming console, namely a media/internet/smart TV/games hub. Some sort of Win8 RT or similar would make perfect sense.

And to tread even more dangerous grounds, I'm afraid that might be more successful than Sony's pure-gaming approach. Because pure gamers are no majority.

And again, I'd be surprised if the NexBox wasn't a Windows machine. Microsoft wants Windows 8 to encompass everything, and rumours say the NexBox's OS needs 3GB of RAM. Don't know about you, but for me the signs are pretty obvious.

If they were to do it it would have to be a cut-down version. 3gb for a console OS is ridiculous, to be frank, and a large number of Win8 features would be entirely superfluous to the console experience and pretty much a waste of space.

I think we'll get something that looks like Win8 and maybe shares some of its codebase, but ultimately isn't the same thing. Much like the current Xbox dash looks a bit like Metro but isn't really.

We're really going to tell one story across two events. So we're going to start on the 21st and really that's about revealing the next Xbox platform, really our vision for the future of games, the future of entertainment. We definitely have a lot of surprises planned. I know everyone knows the Infinity Ward team is hard at work on world premiering the next Call of Duty Ghosts so we're going to see what that looks like for the first time. People are going to get a great inside look at really the making of the new platform and the team that's brought it to life. I mean to be honest it's really about the team, the people here, that's why we're inviting people to campus, we're going to bring them behind the scenes a little bit, we've never done this before and so it's really exiting to be able to do that. But I think it's a lot of laying the foundation, probably the best way to describe it, and then just a couple of weeks later we go to E3. E3 is all about the games.

Aaron Greenberg has also tweeted E3 is all about the games so could mean no 10 minute toilet break on XBox Music,Movies and so on.

Also the guy that leaked Knack the day before the Sony event is now saying League of Legends, Dead Rising 3 and Hawken will be exclusive to XBox